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...real world, that is not a valid reason not to protest those problems and inconveniences at Harvard where they can be so easily remedied. So many of the obstacles that students face when they come to Harvard are easily preventable as long as the administration is willing to adopt the right attitude. I dont understand why "It's a huge issue in terms of balancing historic buildings...with the needs of students who deserve and earn a chance to be here." It seems pretty simple...
...mean much. On Saturday, Falwell called for "compassionate conviction," a sort of religious counterpart to Republican candidate George W. Bush's "compassionate conservatism." But Falwell and Bush both believe employers should be able to fire people just for being gay. Neither wants gays to be able to marry or adopt children. And Falwell, at least, believes sincerely that gays can change into straights. Indeed, he hopes his softer words will allow that message to meet less resistance in the gay community. Other religious conservatives, like Robert Knight of the Family Research Council, said last week they won't even meet...
Since we began in the fall of 1997, the Progressive Student Labor Movement's (PSLM) No Sweat Campaign has focused its energies on the Harvard administration, trying to convince them to adopt a strong policy against sweatshops. We targeted Harvard because, through its licensing program, the University is responsible for contracting for more sweatshop labor than any number of consumers we could have contacted directly, and also because as students we have standing to complain about the actions of our university...
Another liberal-arts ideal is "Know thy world," which is why, even as I prize the education I received there, I favor admitting women. Being all male hasn't always been easy for Wabash--especially after it voted down co-education in 1992. Right-wing think tanks, hoping to adopt the college as a mascot, mounted a nasty campaign to roll back the school's long history of multicultural studies, while hard-core feminists stormed the campus with politically correct, male-bashing lectures like "Athletes as Rapists...
Dixon called for Cambridge to adopt a well-defined economic policy...